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"Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."


"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."


"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."


"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."


"The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences."


"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."


"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."


"Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate."
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